by wildrose » Fri Nov 25, 2016 8:40 am
shadylady: The parallels you point out are undeniable, but for a person caught up in the paranoia/emotion of such a conspiracy theory, it's impossible for them to take a step back and look at the situation realistically. These people are making videos in which mere eccentricities are being turned into evidence of sexual perversion. They are taking statistics about missing children and misrepresenting them to support their contention that there is some kind of widespread underground of pedophiles abducting children to satisfy their sick and twisted desires. One young lady claiming to be from Norway sited Google trends to support her contention that interest in PizzaGate is growing and while that is true, the number of searches for PizzaGate is currently dwarfed by the number of searches for ordinary terms such as Thanksgiving or Black Friday. In fact, the number of searches for Thanksgiving, this morning the day after Thanksgiving no less, was one hundred times that of the number of searches for PizzaGate. Searches for Black Friday more than doubled searches for Thanksgiving. I'm sure that within the conspiracy nutjob community this increase in searches for PizzaGate seems significant, but among these people a friendship bracelet that Joe Biden gave to Barack Obama also seems to be filled with significance. Crazy people have no sense of reality or proportionality.